7-Degree Global Temperature Rise Is Inevitable, Trump Administration Presumes (and Shrugs It Off)

A recently issued environmental report suggests that leaders in the Trump administration have already shrugged off the possibility of putting the brakes on climate change, a stance that embraces a catastrophic future for the planet.

A cemetery in Bucksport, South Carolina, is inundated by floodwaters
 from the Waccamaw River caused by Hurricane Florence. The increasing
frequency and severity of extreme weather events such as this have been
 linked to human-induced climate change.

Scientists have warned that if current levels of fossil fuel consumption continue unchecked, Earth could warm by as much as 7 degrees Fahrenheit (4 degrees Celsius) by 2100.

And according to this report, that prediction is already accepted by the government as inevitable — and nothing will be done to prevent it, The Washington Post reported today (Sept. 28). 

Read the story by Mindy Weisberger from LiveScience - “7-Degree Global Temperature Rise Is Inevitable, Trump Administration Presumes (and Shrugs It Off).”

Mike Pompeo, Climate Policy Foe, Picked to Replace Tillerson as Secretary of State

With Rex Tillerson's firing, President Donald Trump's new choice for Secretary of State—Mike Pompeo, a former Kansas congressman currently serving as director of the CIA—signals a hardening stance against international engagement on climate change.

Mike Pompeo's past statements indicate a far more recalcitrant stance on
  climate change than that of former Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson, who
Pompeo has been nominated to replace as U.S. secretary of state. 

Pompeo's career in business and politics was tightly intertwined with the oil magnate Koch brothers, and he has shown a deep disregard for climate science and the need to address the climate crisis.

As a congressman, Pompeo said the Paris climate agreement amounted to "bow(ing) down to radical environmentalists," and he blasted President Barack Obama for what Pompeo called a "perverse fixation on achieving his economically harmful environmental agenda" in the 2015 talks.

Read the Inside Climate News story by Marianne Lavelle - “Mike Pompeo, Climate Policy Foe, Picked to Replace Tillerson as Secretary of State.”

The alarm bells ring, but we do nothing - what is wrong with us?



Naomi Klein.

“It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment when an elite minority was enjoying more unfettered political, cultural, and intellectual power than at any point since the 1920s” - Naomi Klein.

Britain’s Guardian newspaper has taken a stance on climate change and today in the second of a series of articles wonders what is wrong with us?

“The alarm bells of the climate crisis have been ringing in our ears for years and are getting louder all the time - yet humanity has failed to change course. What is wrong with us?

“Many answers to that question have been offered, ranging from the extreme difficulty of getting all the governments in the world to agree on anything, to an absence of real technological solutions, to something deep in our human nature that keeps us from acting in the face of seemingly remote threats, to – more recently – the claim that we have blown it anyway and there is no point in even trying to do much more than enjoy the scenery on the way down,” it says.

Read The Guardian story now.